Traditional Chinese Medicine Spleen and Stomach Health Care

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the spleen and stomach are used to convert food into qi and blood, so our spleen and stomach are very important in traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are the foundation of acquired constitution. A bad spleen and stomach will have a great impact on our entire body. How can we do a good job in maintaining the health and wellness of the spleen and stomach? Since the spleen and stomach are the terms of traditional Chinese medicine, then we use traditional Chinese medicine to regulate them.

There are many ways to maintain the spleen and stomach using traditional Chinese medicine. We can use acupuncture to maintain it, or we can use massage techniques to maintain it. In addition, we can use diet therapy to maintain the spleen and stomach.

Traditional Chinese medicine attaches great importance to the spleen and stomach functions in the field of health care, and refers to the spleen and stomach functions as "stomach qi". In the theory of the Five Elements, the spleen belongs to the earth element, which means the source of all things. It is difficult to nourish and easily injured. Improper diet is an important cause of damage to the spleen and stomach. Since we must heal ourselves after an injury in order to balance our body and restore our health, what method should we take?

Follow the principles of a diet that protects your stomach

1. Regular and quantitative meals: that is, three meals a day are eaten at regular times, and at the specified time, no matter whether you are hungry or not. Should take the initiative to eat. Avoid being too hungry or too full, and keep your stomach moving regularly. Each meal should also be kept in moderation.

2. Appropriate temperature: The temperature of food should be neither hot nor cold. Otherwise, food that is too hot or too cold will irritate the gastric mucosa after entering the stomach, which may easily cause stomach problems over time.

3. Chew slowly: Chew food thoroughly and make it as small as possible to reduce the workload of the stomach. The more you chew, the more saliva you produce. It has a protective effect on the gastric mucosa.

4. Choose the right time to drink water: The best time to drink water is in the morning when you wake up on an empty stomach and one hour before each meal. Drinking water immediately after a meal will dilute the gastric juice. Rice soaked in soup can also affect the digestion of food.

5. Appropriate supplementation of vitamin C: Vitamin C has a protective effect on the stomach. Maintain a normal level of vitamin C in gastric juice. It can effectively exert the function of the stomach, protect the stomach and enhance the stomach's anti-cancer ability.

6. More sweet and warm foods: Sweet foods can nourish the spleen and stomach. For example, foods such as yam, millet, and pumpkin have a good effect of nourishing the spleen and stomach and can improve immunity.

Above we introduced what the spleen and stomach are. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, we know that the spleen and stomach are used to transform food into qi and blood, so the spleen and stomach are very important to us and are the foundation of our acquired constitution. We have many ways to maintain the spleen and stomach. The above article introduces several methods of traditional Chinese medicine spleen and stomach health care.